Henry Herbert Dodwell - Revival: Dupleix and Clive (1920): The Beginning of Empire

DUPLEIX AND CLIVE

THE BEGINNING OF EMPIRE

HENRY DODWELL

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T HE following pages are based principally upon the East India Company's records preserved under my own care at Madras, the Bengal Records preserved at the India Office, and the Orme MSS., also preserved at the India Office. I have further consulted the Admiralty and War Office papers at the Public Record Office, various MS. collections at the British Museum, with the Miscellaneous Letters Received and the Home-Miscellaneous series at the India Office, and papers lodged in the archives of the French Ministry of the Colonies and at Pondi-chry. I must acknowledge with great gratitude the unvarying courtesy and ready help I received from the various custodians of these papers. Perhaps M. Martineau, late Governor of the French Establishments in India, and Mr. W. Foster, d.E., of the India Office, will allow me thus publicly to announce my special debt to their wide knowledge and experience. I am also under great obligations to Mr. S. C. Hill, not only for numerous suggestions, indications, and references in the course of my research, but also as the editor of Bengal 175657, a collection of documents which I have found it impossible to supplement. Above all, I am obliged to Mr. Mark Hunter, of the Indian Educational Service, who was to have been the author of the present work. When he found his other engagements too pressing, he not only suggested my undertaking it, but also gave me with the greatest generosity his MS. collections, of which I have made extensive use. My indebtedness to printed works is too extensive to be here particularised, but is, I hope, fully indicated in my footnotes and the appended Bibliography.

UNPUBLISHED MS. COLLECTIONS

THE ORME MSS. (India Office Library).

THE MADRAS RECORDS (Madras Record Office).

THE BENGAL RECORDS (India Office Library).

THE ADMIRALTY RECORDS (Public Record Office).

THE WAR OFFICE RECORDS (ibid.).

THE ARCHIVES DE PONDICHRY.

THE ARCHIVES DU MINISTRS COLONIAL, Paris.

PRINTED DOCUMENTS

THE RECORDS OF FORT ST. GEORGE (folio, Madras):

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIT DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'INDE FRANCAISE:

HILL, S. C.Catalogue of the Orme MSS. Oxford, 8vo, 1916.

NAZELLE, LE MARQUIS DE.Dupleix et la dfense de Pondichry. Paris, 8vo, 1908.

ANANDA RANGA PILLAIDiary (Madras, 8vo):

(In progress.)

LOVE, COLONEL H. D.Vestiges of Old Madras. (Indian Record Series.) 3 vols. 8vo, 1918.

DODWELL, H.Calendar of the Madras Records, 174044. Madras, 8vo, 1917.

D'ACH.Despatches, ap. La vie prive de Louis xv, par Moufle d'Angerville. Paris, 8vo, 1781.

LA FARELLE.Memoires et Correspondance. Paris, 8vo, 1896.

Lettres edifiantes et curieuses (ed. AIM-MARTIN), vol. ii. Paris, 8vo, 1839.

Parliamentary Reports of the Secret and Select Committees. Folio, 177273.

LONG, J.Selections from the Unpublished Records of Government, 174867. Calcutta, 8vo, 1869.

HILL, S. C.Abstract of the Early Records of the Foreign Department. Calcutta, folio, 1901.

Bengal in 175657. (Indian Record Series.) 3 vols. 8vo, 1905.

Calendar of Persian Correspondence, 175967. Calcutta, 8vo, 1911.

LAW, J.Mmoires sur quelques affaires de l'empire mogul (ed. A. MARTINEAU). Paris, 8vo, 1913.

CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSY

(a) FRENCH

Mmoire pour La Bourdonnais [and supplement]. Paris, 4to, 175051.

Mmoire pour La Gatinais. Paris, 4to, 1750.

Mmoire pour la famille de Dupleix. Paris, 4to, 1751.

Histoire de la dernire rvolution des Indes Orientales, par M. L. L. M. Paris, 12mo, 1757.

Relation du sige de Pondichry, ap. Collection historique pour servir l'histoire de la guerre terminr [en 1748]. London, 12mo, 1758.

Mmoire pour Dupleix contre la Compagnie des Indes. Paris, 4to, 1759.

Lettre de Godeheu Dupleix. Paris, 4to, 1760.

Mmoire pour la Compagnie des Indes contre Dupleix. Paris, 4to, 1763.

Plainte du Chevalier Law. Paris, 4to, 1763.

Rponse de Dupleix la lettre de Godeheu. Paris, 4to, 1763.

Rfutation des faits imputs Godeheu. Paris, 4to, 1764.

Mmoire pour Bussy expositif de ses crances sur la Compagnie des Indes. Paris, 4to, 1764.

Mmoire pour Bussy au sujet du mmoire que Lally vient de rpandre dans le public. Paris, 4to, 1766.

Mmoire pour Bussy contre la Compagnie. Paris, 4to, 1767.

Mmoire pour Lally contre le Procureur-gnrale. 3 parts. Paris, 4to, 1766.

Lettres de d'Ach Lally. Paris, 4to, 1766.

Lettres de Leyrit Lally. Paris, 4to, 1766.

Mmoire pour d'Ach. Paris, 4to, 1766.

(b) MADRAS

[MONSON, WILLIAM].A Letter to a Proprietor of the East India Company. 8vo, n.d., 123 pp. (I.O. Tracts).

Narrative of the Transactions of the British Squadrons in the East Indies by an Officer who served in those Squadrons. 8vo, 1751.

Journal of the Boscawen's Voyage to Bombay by Philalethes. 8vo, 1750.

(c) BENGAL

[WATTS, WILLIAM],Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal in the Year 1757. 8vo, 1760.

An Authentic Account of the Proceedings of the States of Holland and West Friesland on the Complaints laid before them by Sir Joseph Yorke. [With appendix of original letters.] 4to, 1762.

A Defence of the United Merchants of England against the Complaints of the Dutch East India Company 4to, 1762.

[CAILLAUD, JOHN].Narrative of what happened in Bengal in the Year 1760. 8vo, n.d.

HOLWELL, J. Z.India Tracts. 4to, 1764 (2nd ed.).

VANSITTART, H.Narrative. 3 vols. 8vo, 1766.

Address from Holwell to Scrafton in reply to his Observations on Mr. Vansittart's Narrative. 8vo, 1767.